My Incredibly Talented Sister

Well, both of my sisters are talented. We learned most of our crafts from our Mom. This is a beautiful white, felt pillow from 'The Princess' made from a pattern right out of her head.

It is stunning!
I don't know how long it took her to cut out all those circles.

I think she meant it for my sofa, but I didn't want the pets on it, so I put it in my bedroom. It looks equally nice on my bed or on my chair.

Thanks Sis!

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New Year - New Project

Happy New Year to all my friends and followers and folk I haven't met in person.

2012 is off to a great start for me and I have been feeling on top of the world and my Christmas decorations are all put away - a record for me! Now my house looks (naked)
My first project for the year is a new desk to work on my Bible study in my bedroom. It had to be small to fit. It has the perfect dimensions, it will sit right in the window and catch the morning sun. I can hardly wait. My Dad, one of my project managers is going to do the painting. It came already prepped, sanded and filled. How precious is that.

The desk is made, we think, of oak with a walnut veneer. I was thinking of trying the new Anne Sloan Chalk Paint on it. I will check into that on Wednesday. Of course it will be a shade of white.

I think I will keep the original drawer pulls.

I would like to thank Colleen from http://vintagehomecolleen.blogspot.com/ Vintage Home.

She located the perfect piece for us, and after a comedy of back and forth emails, we were finally able to get together for delivery. It made the wait fun. And I got to see her fabulous Christmas tree in the foyer, too. WOW! Colleen gave us a generous deal on the desk, her prices are very reasonable, and she is a bubbly, fun gal to get to know, too. Thank you so much Colleen.

OK Dad, you can paint it now.

Merry Christmas

These beautiful tiny bottle brush trees I purchased from my friend, Tracey at the Fieldstone Vintage Market. You can access her blog and her Etsy at http://raggygirlvintage.blogspot.com/

The only thing I added was the tiny cloche. What do you think, Tracey?

This photo shows how tiny they are. They are the cutest!

My china cabinet is sooooo different this year after my Dad painted it white this summer.

It was fun decorating it for the holidays.

See the lovely centre piece from Sandi. I am sure she would love a visit, too.

http://acottagemuse.blogspot.com/

Wishing you all a very blessed Christmas and hugs for the New Year.

Advent Calendar TA-DA!

This project took me a whole year to make.

Some of my friends and followers have been waiting a long time for the unveiling.

I purchased the instructions from Paula http://www.2gypsygirls.com/

I thoroughly enjoyed the creative process. I am sure it will stay up past December.

Any bets as to how long?

The Last Two Tags

I was getting really, really close to finishing the Advent calendar. But I ran into a little problem.

I misplaced the first 11 tags. Not so little a problem really. I had the picture frame already hung and all the other tags up, but the missing ones were, well . . . missing.

My sister came to my rescue. We tore my upstairs apart looking for them, about to give up. Then success! Would you like to see how they all look together now?

Two Talented Friends

My friend Ana from http://apetitecottage.blogspot.com/A Petite Cottage made a special white Lady Pamela pumpkin just for me. She has an Etsy shop you might like to visit. Please tell her Lady Pamela sent you.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/APetiteCottage.com

I also have two talented sisters who like to make me things. This was a great thrift store find foot stool, my Dad painted the legs white and my younger sister made a slipcover for it that looks much nicer in my cottage. I positively squeeled when I saw it!

Unfortunately, she doesn't have a blog or an Etsy shop, but she is t-h-i-n-k-i-n-g about signing up for Etsy in the new year.

I absolutely love it! and her, too of course.

The free graphic was from the Graphics Fairy.

http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

White Fall Decor 2011

A lovely teacup caddy gifted me by my friend BHS holds a collection of white teacups.

The tag and lavendar sachet was a gift from Tracey at

http://raggygirlvintage.blogspot.com

Mini white pumpkins fill my current favorite item from Sandi at http://acottagemuse.blogspot.com

I may have 'nagged' her a little about it, seeing it in some of her posts until she finally found one she could part with. I know it wasn't the polite thing to do, but part of me is really glad I did. Thank you Sandi.

My personal attempt at a 'Mum'-kin. That is where you take a fake Dollar store pumpkin and some fabric mums and jab them all over the pumpkin until they look like the old fashioned swimming caps back in the day. Know what I mean? These ones I coffee stained first.

This is the 35 year old maple finished china cabinet that Mom and Dad gave us for our wedding gift. DH was going to paint it white for me for my birthday in June, but Dad was bored after building the deck, so he volunteered. It gave DH more time to enjoy the summer on the deck instead of doing all the "Honey-Do" list things I usually have for him. We did alot of daytrips this past summer instead.

One poor wee pumpkin in the kitchen, that is all it got.

*Smiles*